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Daniel Krige was born in South Africa and grew up in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. He left school at fifteen and wrote the draft of what was to become his first feature film, West, the following year. At sixteen, he began working for Grundy Television, beginning a prolific career as a script-writer with scripts for such programs as Richmond Hill.

He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School at the same time as director Rowan Woods, cinematographer Dion Beebe, director and script-writer Samantha Lang, director Peter Duncan, and director, script-writer, and producer Robert Connolly. In the early 1990s, he wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Door (1993), Fuckwit (1994), and Our Feral Friends (1994): The Door won the Golden Hugo for Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Since 2000, he has written for programs including Above the Law (2000); All Saints (2000), for which he was also script editor; Crash Palace (2001); Fireflies (2004); and Home and Away (2007).

In 2007, he directed his first full-length script, West, which he had originally drafted as a teenager. In 2012, he directed satirical horror film Redd Inc. to a script by Jonathan Green and Anthony O'Connor.

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'Set in a small country town, FIREFLIES centres on the townspeople and its rural bushfire brigade. You can measure a township by the commitment of its people. Most of them are volunteers, from the fire brigade to the CWA. Whether you're new in town, or here for generations, when you're facing the driest hottest summer in decades, it pays to belong.'

One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.

In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.

Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.

All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.

'Inspired by true events, Stingers reveals the shadowy and ambiguous world of undercover cops — people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. They are police who defeat crime from within the criminal world — always without a badge and frequently without protection. The series follows the lives of the operatives as they befriend and betray those on the other side of the law. For these select few, it is a deadly way of life.The undercover cops of Stingers are a unique breed. They must juggle their own lives — love, laughter, family and humanity — with the tension of the criminal personas they adopt in their passion for justice.'